I suppose they will have some kind of near earth orbit satellite that act as a gateway and it will have firewalls, IDS etc. to offer some protection for the obvious attacks. So the network traffic from this point onward to mars (and beyond) should be largely legit. Then again - I DoS myself sometimes with "legit" traffic in some crazy experiment:-)
Most people I know take their mobile phone with them when they leave their desks, so why not use a Bluetooth app (like this one) to lock the screen once your phone is out of range.
For those who don't know about Seacom yet, look here for a quick intro video.
This is however still no silver bullet, as the local Telkom exchanges (where our 4MB lines plug in) can not yet handle higher speeds. Apparently they tested 8MB ADSL earlier and found some issues (I'm too lazy to goole it now...)
... is to look at the porn industry. Seriously, when e-Commerce started and with the exception of the amazon's of the world, the porn industry were (and perhaps still is) leading the way in how we as humans accept new tech.
Wasn't the Internet supposed to break down physical barriers like distance etc.? Things like this really start to piss me off.
I am also a non-US person and the hoops we need to jump to to get stuff is unreal. I don't get it either... If we buy stuff over the Net in the US, the producer of the goods/services still get their share, so why must I wait 1 or 2 years before the material is available in my country?
O well - there will be a way to circumvent this shortly. I'll just add to my ever growing list:-)
This is insane! It's like we are going back to the dark ages...
I just can't imagine that there are people sitting some where in a room that can actually think of ways like this to milk innocent people for more money.
Ah - and now you will tell me that the devil made them do it - and for once we all might agree on/.:-)
I absolutely agree with you. I have my own idea of "enterprise" ready but it never seem to be the same definition the "enterprise" software vendors use.
A lot of them argue around the support angle - what bs! We deploy a number of solutions in our company built on open source software stacks and the support we get from the open source community is every single time so much better then the support you pay for.
It boils down to this: "you can't buy loyalty but you can always trust a developer loyal to his code".
One lesson I have learned the hard way is simply that once you offer a service for free you can not charge for it in the future. You loose too many clients that way.
In this case, however, it appears to me that this is a good way for them to get rid of unwanted users. They are not loosing their main base. It would be interesting for me to see what the user base looks like geographically - I suspect the bulk of their users are from the "free" countries.
Whatever the actual reason - there are still plenty of options. No love lost here...
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I also belief some mobile apps exists to store password - not too sure how "secure" they are though.
I suppose they will have some kind of near earth orbit satellite that act as a gateway and it will have firewalls, IDS etc. to offer some protection for the obvious attacks. So the network traffic from this point onward to mars (and beyond) should be largely legit. Then again - I DoS myself sometimes with "legit" traffic in some crazy experiment :-)
Perhaps, but they still need to rip the stuff here on earth, right?
copyright violations... What special privilege do they get from the RIAA etc. I want it too!
...will it my $TERM faster?
Most people I know take their mobile phone with them when they leave their desks, so why not use a Bluetooth app (like this one) to lock the screen once your phone is out of range.
...it must have happened shortly after the monolith appeared :-)
For those who don't know about Seacom yet, look here for a quick intro video.
This is however still no silver bullet, as the local Telkom exchanges (where our 4MB lines plug in) can not yet handle higher speeds. Apparently they tested 8MB ADSL earlier and found some issues (I'm too lazy to goole it now...)
Must be a slow news day...
... is to look at the porn industry. Seriously, when e-Commerce started and with the exception of the amazon's of the world, the porn industry were (and perhaps still is) leading the way in how we as humans accept new tech.
Even PM had an article about it a while back.
Machines can be how clever, but it's our choice if we accept them or not and for what purposes and within which boundaries.
Only we can screw this up (and we probably will).
Especially if you open one...
When it happens, most of us wont even know it :-)
The survivors amongst us might know after they can't access /. for 12 consecutive hours.
Didn't it happen like really long ago or something? Then we must be in a giant fishbowl which echoes :-)
Ok - that made my day! I love Perl but I think coding Perl in Eclipse is just madness :-)
o - and I just got this link from a friend... myus.com - a "package forwarding service for consumers around the world."
Wasn't the Internet supposed to break down physical barriers like distance etc.? Things like this really start to piss me off.
I am also a non-US person and the hoops we need to jump to to get stuff is unreal. I don't get it either... If we buy stuff over the Net in the US, the producer of the goods/services still get their share, so why must I wait 1 or 2 years before the material is available in my country?
O well - there will be a way to circumvent this shortly. I'll just add to my ever growing list :-)
This is just normal marketing - nothing was leaked...
In the end they know perfectly well how to manipulate most slashdotters :-)
They no longer have to keep employees happy, since the world economic crisis force employees to hang on to what they got.
It will open as soon as the crisis are over and power is back in the employees court :-)
Especially for something like rugby
This is insane! It's like we are going back to the dark ages...
I just can't imagine that there are people sitting some where in a room that can actually think of ways like this to milk innocent people for more money.
Ah - and now you will tell me that the devil made them do it - and for once we all might agree on /. :-)
I absolutely agree with you. I have my own idea of "enterprise" ready but it never seem to be the same definition the "enterprise" software vendors use.
A lot of them argue around the support angle - what bs! We deploy a number of solutions in our company built on open source software stacks and the support we get from the open source community is every single time so much better then the support you pay for.
It boils down to this: "you can't buy loyalty but you can always trust a developer loyal to his code".
+1
I couldn't have said it better :-)
One lesson I have learned the hard way is simply that once you offer a service for free you can not charge for it in the future. You loose too many clients that way.
In this case, however, it appears to me that this is a good way for them to get rid of unwanted users. They are not loosing their main base. It would be interesting for me to see what the user base looks like geographically - I suspect the bulk of their users are from the "free" countries.
Whatever the actual reason - there are still plenty of options. No love lost here...
Thanks for that... Makes sense then. Scary stuff.
A quick Google shows BIOS malware going back some time, so I don't know what so different from this one...